Human Rights Treasure Hunt

Introduction

Treasure Hunt
Human Rights

Goal: To familiarize you with the Human Rights concept, which is of universal nature. The information collected from these websites will help you to better understand the complexity of this concept.

Choose one Web site to explore. Use the information in the Web site to answer the questions below the Web link. Be sure to read the complete articles! After you finish answering your questions, meet with your classmates to find out the answers to the remaining questions. Don't forget to answer the BIG QUESTION at the end.

Web site: http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/human-rights-basics

Questions:

1. What are Human Rights?

2. How can Human Rights be classified?

3. How are Human Rights protected and upheld?

Web site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3BbLk5UIQ

Questions:

1. Who was the first in human history to think about rights of people?

2. What is Natural Law?

3. When was the Declaration of Human Rights drawn up?

Web site: http://www.hrw.org/node/75141

Questions:

1. How do human rights researchers work?

2. What is the role of local human rights activists?

3. Why do human rights researchers examine criminal sentencing data?

Web site: http://www.hrw.org/our-work/defenders

Questions:

1. What is the sphere of activity of the Russian expert Natalia Taubina?

2. What is Public Verdict?

3. What is the aim of Public Verdict?4. What are other issues that human rights defenders deal with?